Linda Pirtle is a retired educator who taught the art of writing and understanding literature for years as an English teacher. Linda Pirtle’s cozy mystery series The Games We Play features the “lady next door” and includes four novels: Book One, The Mah Jongg Murders (earned a five-star Readers Favorite Award); Book Two, Deadly Dominoes (Best Cozy Mystery Texas Authors 2018); Book Three, Tarot Terrors (Best Cozy Mystery Texas Authors 2019); and Book Four, Scrabbled Secrets (2020). The Christian series reveals how people bent on evil can ruin an innocent, fun game.
Linda is a member of the Underground Authors who created the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles. Magnolia Bluff is a small fictional town in the Texas Hill Country. It is situated near the Burnet Reservoir. Murder and mayhem reign there.
For this series, she has written Book 7: The Dewey Decimal Dilemma, Book 10: The Dog Gone Diamond Dilemma, and Book 22: Girlfriend Retreat. ..Cheaper Than Therapy.
Book 23: Girlfriend Retreat. . .Cheaper Than Therapy is scheduled to be released in March, 2024. Beginning in elementary school, Linda has enjoyed a core group of girlfriends. They meet annually for a girls’ trip. More than once, they have been dubbed “the rowdy group,” and all of them are included in Cheaper Than Therapy when they travel to Magnolia Bluff for their annual get together.
Will the town survive their invasion? OR will they survive the challenges they encounter? Murder, arson, deception, and secrets abound in what should be a quiet little town.
Linda lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her Standard Poodle named Piper.